Saturday, April 06, 2013

A Coral Reef

Hello everyone, I hope you are doing well. I've managed to get time out in the gardens the last couple of days. Yesterday it was 4 degrees (Celsius), windy and we even had some light snow flurries, but I hung in with warm clothing.

I added Peacock Feathers & Broken China Distress Ink to the background using the Acrylic Block technique. (simply add ink directly from the pad onto an Acrylic Block and spritz with water and 'smoosh' onto your white cardstock).

I stamped the medium Coral from Ryn's Coral Set many times over the background using Colourbox Boysenberry, Harbour & Frost White pigment inks. I stamped off the ink and added more coral into the background to make it appear as if it was in the distance. Next I stamped the single fish from School of Fish set.

I embossed the small & medium Starfish and the small Sea horse from the sets on water colour paper with silver. I coloured them with my Tombow markers, cut out and added as shown.

Hello is from Impression Obsession A3579.

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25 comments:

How realistic, Shirley. I actually feel as though I'm snorkeling in Florida's crystal clear blue waters. Wonderful techniques, and very pretty, vibrant star fish. Love those angel fish and the pretty sea horses, too. Would you believe I just acquired a fantasy image of a woman whose hair is flowing in the ocean - it has SEA DRAGONS just like your amazing image by Ryn. I hope to do something with vibrant colors, the way you do. For some reason, that is very difficult for me. Sorry to hear about the snow flurries. We have perfect weather today. Our high will be 28C. xo

Thank you for the description of the acrylic block technique - that now makes more sense to me. I love the way your seahorses are both pink & green & how they seem to 'glow' in your underwater world. Using the black for the angel fish helps to give a sense of underwater luminosity to the scenery - quite a striking effect altogether.Paula (PEP)

Wow Shirley this is stunning, such gorgeous colours. I love using the acrylic block technique for backgrounds. The only stamp that I don't have out of these is the starfish, all I need to do now is find the time to ink them.

I see many other commenters have chosen the same word that came into my mind: "Gorgeous"! The turquoise & purple-y combo colors really did invoke a coral reef, and I loved the subtle effect of the shaded stamping...added so much depth to your scene. It's lovely, and happy to hear you had 'nice' (relatively speaking) weather that allowed you some outside time. Sounded like Brrrrr to me!!! TFS

You are currently a contradiction in degrees, Shirley! You are outside gardening, bundled up against the cold, but you are sharing with us a warm and pearlescent and full-of-life ocean scene!! Stunning, as always, especially the sea horses! Hang in there with the *&*^ weather ~ hard to believe that it won't be long before everyone will be barking about how hot and humid it is. Well, not everyone, some do like it that way ~ perhaps everyone will after this eternal winter!! xxxooDarnell

Hi Shirley!Wow I love this card, just beautiful! Really pretty blue colours and terrific sea creatures, they are so sweet! I love the technique with the coral background, that looks so great, very real! Yes, very tempting to just jump into this card for a little snorkelling! Thanks for sharing this cheerful card!Warm greetings, Marlene :)